Friday, September 25, 2009

Cara told me a bit about her over the phone and we originally planned on shooting inside her high school's theater, but found our right before our session that it was not allowed. :( So we decided to move on to choice B: Old Lee's Summit. PERFECTO! We got super lucky and it so happened that the carnival for October Fest was in town and setting up. YEAH!

A volunteer from the carnival, please. :) BTW: His shirt was so cute, says "Don't talk to me when I'm talking to myself." We got some free cotton-candy out of the guys there. Total sweethearts.

And the sky was oh-so-ferris-bueller!

Cara totally played into my ANTM dream! She's such a wonderful model!

I think we angered a bee while we shot this one...just a few here before we took off....quickly.

She did mention on the phone that she had long hair. WOW! I love it!!!

So, I in my car about 10 minutes from our location when the OCEAN dumped over and I nearly pulled over due to low visibility. UG! I picked up my phone to call and cancel, but being so close I figured the least I could do was meet in person. To my shock and awe, that cute little country girl said "Let's do this!". It was a full on rain for about 95% of our session (we had a quick 10 minute break), but we were determined for greatness. I'll admit, I was a bit nervous, but I CANNOT be happier with the results. Oh my gosh! WOW!

I love my camera, I love my camera, I love my camera...but sometimes great gain comes with great risk. I had a super high-dollar plastic grocery sack (maybe from HyVee...I reuse whenever possible) that I cleverly made into a camera-raincoat, and braved the storm for an awesome scene! This shot was worth a few drops on my precious Canon. You can even see the rain coming down!

Also in the rain...

...this, too, in the rain (as close to the barn as possible)

She gets her sense of humor from her mama... I would know! :)

And this is how we spent our 10 rain-free minutes...

I would like to give a huge shout out to my fabulous assistants, Jodi (aka: Megan's Mom), and Stephanie (aka: Megan's sister)....and also to Lunch coordinator (aka: Megan's Grandma). :)

An add-on to the last blog post, we did Marky's senior portraits at the same time as Lacey & Kelly's engagement portraits. We loaded up two cars full of folk and went all around...getting all the cool spots we could find...and we found a TON! Arkansas is definitely not short on unique scenery.

First stop...the bus stop... well, not exactly. Something Arkansas has a lot of is broken down old cars, trucks, tubs, toilets...you name it, and it's probably sitting in someone's backyard around the corner. haha

Couldn't resist throwing in Marky's cute GF in some shots.

Ok...so that last one was enough to make him dizzy...

And they question my vision!

No need to adjust your monitor...you are seeing correctly. He looks HILARIOUS in that outfit! hahahahaha He's got school spirit! GO BADGERS!

Which is your favorite Marky?

The whole shoot was sooooooo much fun and ALL the pictures ROCK! I wanted to share some of the bloopers.

This one's really not a so much a blooper though, just an awesome shot of Aaron (another brother-in-law). Couldn't resist.

The three brothers...

All the May kids... aren't they all so ridiculously good looking?!

I saw this and made everyone turn around to go back and get a shot. It's funny because on the other side of this sign is a bunch of police cars and someone getting arrested. Always entertainment down there.

Much more fun to come. I have another video I'd like to share just as soon as I have a little extra time to finish it. ...hum...it might be a while... :)